At Least 6 Killed in Blasts near Kabul Schools

TEHRAN (IQNA) – At least six people, including students, were killed and 11 were injured Tuesday in explosions targeting educational institutions in a mostly Shia neighborhood of Afghanistan’s capital city, police said.

The blasts, which occurred in rapid succession, were being investigated and more casualties were feared, according to Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran and the city's Emergency Hospital. Several of the wounded were in critical condition.

The explosions occurred inside the Abdul Rahim Shaheed High School and near the Mumtaz Education Center several kilometers away, both in the predominately Shia Muslim neighborhood of Dasht-e-Barchi. There were no immediate reports of casualties at the Mumtaz Center.

Guards in the narrow street leading to the two-story high school said they saw 10 casualties. Inside the school, an Associated Press video journalist saw walls splattered with blood, burned notebooks and children's shoes.

It appeared a suicide bomber blew himself up inside the sprawling compound, which can house up to 1,000 students, witnesses said. It wasn't immediately clear how many children were in the school at the time of the explosion.

No one has immediately claimed responsibility. The area has been targeted in the past by Afghanistan’s Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) affiliate.

Source: AP